Empower BreastNet: breast cancer detection with transfer learning VGG Net-19

Abstract

Breast cancer is a major cause of death among women globally, making early detection crucial for effective treatment. This study introduces a new deep learning (DL) method using transfer learning (TL) to automatically detect and diagnose breast cancer. TL improves performance on new tasks by using knowledge from previous tasks. In this study, we use pre-trained convolutional neural networks (CNNs) like AlexNet, ResNet50, visual geometry group (VGG)-16, and VGG-19 to extract features from the breast cancer wisconsin (BCW) diagnostic dataset. We measure the model's success with accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, precision, and F-score. The results show that the VGG-19 model, when applied with TL, performs best for diagnosing breast cancer, achieving an overall accuracy of 98.75%, sensitivity of 97.38%, specificity of 98.35%, precision of 97.35%, and an F-score of 97.66%.